The project based learning: Connecting the foreign language teaching and environmental education

Abstract

Modern foreign language teaching is increasingly striving to create conditions where students can work collaboratively, where they can be active and motivated, gaining autonomy of learning, and developing a critical thinking about certain social problems. One of the methods that enables them to work together on certain activities are projects. By learning and adopting a particular foreign language, through the teaching based on projects, both teachers and students become researchers who solve problems, practically act, using language skills and getting acquainted with new topics, among which the theme of the environment is highlighted. Through planned projects, activities and collaborative work, foreign language learners can deal with current environmental problems with mentoring of teachers, and thus to some extent influence their own development of ecological awareness, which is of great importance for every individual in a society that strives to our planet continues to be preserved. Therefore, the aim of this theoretical paper is to point to the interdisciplinary approach that is reflected in linking the topics of project learning, foreign language teaching and ecological topics and problems in order to positively influence the development of language skills and competence in foreign language learning, but also on encouraging the development of ecological awareness of all students.

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“…Through these steps, the students would have enough opportunities to draw connections from theories to real life and make use of their real-life skills to solve problems. This collaboration also helps maximize their professional potential and is widely recognized as an ideal strategy for 21st-century student development (Bell, 2010;Vidosavljević & Vidosavljević, 2018).…”